Example sentences of "come [adv] [adj] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We had come only forty-two miles in three days — fourteen miles a day . |
| 2 | The influences that had pressed on her adolescent consciousness began to come together that summer in the French capital with her arts school boyfriend , Bernie from Bermondsey . |
| 3 | While the NHS has become increasingly concerned with ensuring that there is a hierarchy of individuals with responsibility for achieving certain objectives , and an increasing commitment by individual doctors , nurses and therapists to agreed aims , local authority staff have also come under increasing pressure from elected council members and , behind them , the voting electorate , to demonstrate that their service departments have effective management structures and are truly accountable . |
| 4 | ( The Croatian port of — Dubrovnik had meanwhile come under renewed shelling from Serbian forces since May 29 . ) |
| 5 | The governor of the Bank of England , Robin Leigh Pemberton , had also come under intense criticism for not acting more quickly when he became aware of fraud within BCCI . |
| 6 | It has also come under severe attack from the orthodox medical establishment . |
| 7 | Baker had previously come under heavy attack in parliament over the escape from Brixton Prison in July of two suspected members of the Irish Republican Army [ see p. 38356 ] , over the introduction of legislation related to dangerous dogs , and over the outbreak of inner-city rioting in August-September [ see p. 38445 ] . |
| 8 | Erm , Simon , there 's one that 's come up right field in the fact that we mention , I think you might have got it 'cos you 're responsible for the Q P five , which talks about interim reports , services . |
| 9 | She has three children , one under the age of one , and has to come up four flights of stairs to her home many times a day . |
| 10 | In the first case , elitism does not provide an explanation , being merely a loose term to describe a social category about which other features rather than the elite characteristic provide what explanation there is ; in the second case , the power elite looks remarkably like a social class , and elite explanation has come back full circle to its point of departure . |
| 11 | And I think I will have come out that way on the thing . |
| 12 | I represent a crime , and if Eric was to come back stirring things up The Truth About Frank might come out . |
| 13 | After a small glass of Cyprus sherry , Greg took his leave , amid pressing invitations to come back any time in the future when he felt like a chat . |
| 14 | The aircraft , worth millions of pounds , was on a routine training mission when it came down six miles from its base at RAF Upper Heyford.Eyewitnesses have described seeing the plane trailing smoke and flames just before it crashed . |
| 15 | The switch worked : on the faces of both of them came down that twilight of solemnity , a most vulnerable condition , he had found , if rightly played upon . |
| 16 | They and many of Gaume 's friends and colleagues came together one evening in May to celebrate his 40 years in the kitchens of the world with a sumptuous dinner , matched by a fine selection of wines . |
| 17 | came in half way through it , at least half way erm but it was so obviously the voice of erm Freud , Clement Freud |
| 18 | Germany was next , going up by 43 per cent and her ally Austria-Hungary came in third place with an increase of 35 per cent . |
| 19 | It 's a little like listening to those debates in parliament where parliament vote themselves extra salaries and I feel very uncomfortable in this process , I thought I might be coming here this morning to disagree with my own group , or those members of them that do n't agree with me , perhaps joined with the conservatives in opposing this motion , but I find in fact that everybody is saying oh let's put up the er , the heading , I feel very uncomfortable with this having spent six months in the budget review , criticising officers up hill and down dale every time that they exceeded their budget , having told them that either they balance their budget or that they came in next year with a budget with no more than a one and a half percent increase , or their successors would be doing it for us . |
| 20 | His release came only eight days after another American hostage , Robert Polehill was set free . |
| 21 | Significantly , the ruling came only two days before tens of thousands of people took part in a march from Moscow 's Gorky Park to Manezh Square outside the Kremlin to call for the resignation of Prime Minister Ryzhkov and his government . |
| 22 | The first Commons debate on world climate change came only two days after the prime minister 's theme-setting UN speech on the environment in November 1989 , yet at no stage in its five-hour course was it attended by more than fourteen MPs . |
| 23 | The PAC 's condemnation came only two weeks after a meeting between delegations led respectively by Makwetu and Mandela , the first formal contact between the two movements for 30 years . |
| 24 | The by-election came only two weeks after the ending of universal free hospital care . |
| 25 | The pannier bags normally stay on , but this climb came only one day into the trip and with a fortnight 's food on board I could n't even lift my bike . |
| 26 | The attack came only five days after another great white killed 34-year-old British-born mother of five Terri Cartwright , who had been on a diving excursion off the island of Tasmania . |
| 27 | The agreement came only 10 hours before the deadline for the beginning of the new fiscal year , after which automatic spending cuts triggered by the Gramm-Rudman-Hollings deficit reduction law would have become operational . |
| 28 | The arrest of Burke followed recent charges against his former Deputy Premier , David Parker , and came only three weeks after the imprisonment of another of his associates , bankrupt Western Australian tycoon Alan Bond [ see p. 38917 ] . |
| 29 | The incident came just five days after a pitch invasion by Manchester City fans during their side 's 4–2 FA Cup defeat at home to Tottenham , which was screened live on television . |
| 30 | The vote came just five days after the United Nations-appointed ‘ Truth Commission ’ report blamed the army for the vast majority of war crimes in a conflict that killed 75,000 people , most of them civilians . |